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There’s a few oddities in here, but look for yourself:
Former New York City mayor and presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani will be the keynote speaker at the Republican National Convention, which begins Monday, September 1st. His Tuesday night address will follow primetime speeches from Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, who are seen as two of the most likely candidates to become John McCain’s running mate, were not granted primetime speaking slots. Romney is currently slated to speak on Wednesday, Sept 3rd, while Pawlenty is scheduled to join Charlie Crist, Sam Brownback and Mel Martinez to address the convention on Thursday, Sept. 4th, before McCain’s convention-closing address.(The schedule could change.)
Whomever McCain selects as his running mate will give an address in primetime on Wednesday, along with Cindy McCain and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindel.
Former Democrat Joe Lieberman and Vice President Dick Cheney will speak on the convention’s first day. They will be followed in primetime by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush.
Am I missing something? Whose idea was it to make Rudy Giuliani the keynote speaker? Yeah, that’ll energize the base. And then there’s the question of timing on Wednesday night. The schedule says that Bobby Jindal will speak after the VP, whereas Ed says his copy of the schedule says before. Which is it? Weird.
Like Allah, I’m a little unsure as to why exactly Rudy and the Governator are getting prime-time speaking slots over people like Mitt Romney, Carly Fiorina, and Tim Pawlenty. Neither one of them are real conservatives — hell, they’re barely Republicans. And they aren’t the rising stars in the party. Their stars are getting dimmer.
I’m glad to see that Sarah Palin will have a prime-time appearance. I think I’m more excited to hear what she has to say, and Bobby Jindal as well, than anyone else at the convention.
This certainly doesn’t shine any light on who McCain’s VP pick will be, either. I’ve stayed mum on that subject because speculating over and over again seems to be an exercise in futility in my opinion. I just want them both to make the damn announcement and get it over with.
The convention is supposed to fire up the base, and I hope they’re able to do that. With Giuliani as the keynote speaker, though… we’ll have to see.
I’m sure it has to do with appealing to “the middle”. My theory is that 30% of America is for Obama, and about 30% of America is actually conservative. Most of those will probably go for McCain. The Republicans need more than half of those middle 40%, and right now they only have about half of them… depending on what day, it’s a little more, or a little less.
The polls say that 70% of America is unhappy with Bush. What they don’t say is why. Liberals assume that it means that 70% of America is liberal like they are. But there is a significant number of conservatives in that number who are unhappy because Bush isn’t conservative enough for them. How big that number is, I don’t know.
At any rate, it’s all about that slice of the middle of the pie right now. He’s facing a candidate that is so distasteful to conservatives that he won’t lose many of them. They’re doing PR. Shoring up the brand name by watering it down to appeal to more people.
Me, I’m hoping for a continued hard line against militant Islam, a few conservative judges, and a course that doesn’t steer as close to socialism as Obama would try to take us.
Which is why I’m voting for McCain. No matter who he has speaking in prime time.
I wish I could be more enthusiastic about it, but at least I know for why and for whom I am voting.
As far as this goes:
“The only people can say that they aren’t immigrants are the people sitting right here,” [Obama] says and points to the tribal leaders.
This is that new-fangled Progressive thinking. You get to re-define words to mean what they don’t so you can say what you want to say and sound all intilekchual. And stuff.
So when the first “Native Americans” crossed the land bridge from Asia to America, they were native, and not immigrating. Well, ok, if nobody lived here we’ll buy that that is consistent with what they are saying.
But what about the next group of wanderers? Surely there was more than one group of people sauntering over to Alaska. Were they immigrants, too?
Bottom line is, Cassie’s right and Obama’s just dead wrong (imagine that!) … if you were born here, your a native. That’s what the word “native” means. Or at least that’s what it always meant until Progressives decided that words mean what they want them to mean at any particular point in time.
native (adj.) c.1374, from O.Fr. natif (fem. native), from L. nativus “innate, produced by birth,” from natus, pp. of nasci, gnasci “be born,” related to gignere “beget,” from PIE base *gen-/*gn- “produce”
I once went to see Navajo flutist R. Carlos Nakai. During the day before the performance, he was to speak at a local coffee house. I am a fan of the music, and I was curious as to what a musician might have to say or be expected to say at a coffee house. So I went. Besides, the coffee was good there.
Some ponytailed, tweed’n’socks’n berkenstocks guy opened with a question:
“How do I respect you, as a Native American?”
His answer was priceless. In a kind of a “what the hell kind of question was that?” tone, he said
“Why do you WANNA to respect me?”
After which my respect for him went beyond respect for his musicianship. That is what I would call the answer of a true Human Being, as they would put it.
He went on to tell a story about a friend who was arguing about whether or not he was a native American, and R. Carlos’s answer was:
“Were you born here?”
John Moore says: “Maverick” John McCain truly has a long history of upsetting conservatives on too many issues, and I truly don’t see him stopping with that practice anytime soon. Please truly let me be wrong about this!
J David says: Those actual conservatives hoping Juan Amnesty McVain someday takes his thumbs out of their eyes are hope totally in vain…Wave “bye-bye” to the GOP(at least as the home of conservatism).
J David says: The owner of both leading candidates, George Soros, is the only “winner” in this contest of losers.
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